Ragout
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Version: 0.1 beta

Release date: 14 Jan 2014

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Description
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Ragout (Reference-Assisted Genome Ordering UTility) is a tool for
assisted assembly using multiple references. It takes a short read
assembly (a set of contigs), a set of related references
and a corresponding phylogenetic tree and then assembles the contigs into
scaffolds.

The benefits of assembly with multiple references become significant,
when those references have structural variations compared to the target
genome. Even if each reference is structurally divergent, it is possible
to assemble the target into the correct set of scaffolds. Enlarge your
contigs with Ragout!

The current version of Ragout is limited to genomes of bacterial size,
but we are working on expanding it to mammalinan-scaled ones.

Install
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See *INSTALL.md* file.

Usage
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See *USAGE.md* file.

Authors
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- Mikhail Kolmogorov (St. Petersburg University of the Russian Academy of
Sciences)
- Son Pham (University of California, San Diego)

Citation
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- Mikhail Kolmogorov, Brian Raney, Benedict Paten, and Son Pham. 
"Complete Assembly of Common Bacterial Genomes Using Only Short Reads" 
(submitted to ISMB 2014)

Contacts
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Please report any bugs directly to the issue tracker of this project.
Also, you can send your feedback at fenderglass@gmail.com

Acknowledgements
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The work was supported by V-P Foundation.

Licence
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The program is distributed under GNU GPL v2 license.